Kelley Lab
Resources
Videos from the lab:
L’Oreal USA For Women in Science 2012 video of Joanna Kelley. YouTube
Description of Kryptolebias marmoratus genome assembly with Ion Torrent data from AGBT 2012. YouTube
General resources:
How to write a cover letter: http://blogs.nature.com/methagora/2013/09/how-to-write-a-cover-letter.html
How to read a scientific paper: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-raff/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper_b_5501628.html
As scientists, part of our role is to speak to the scientific community and to speak to the public about our science. Preparing talks for either audience is extremely important. Whether for lab meeting or for an audience of 100+, the principles are the same. How to Give Better Talks
Biological Sciences Graduate students quick links:
Computational resources:
Learning bioinformatics at home: https://github.com/harvardinformatics/learning-bioinformatics-at-home
For the lab’s code repository, visit the Kelley lab GitHub page.
For command line tutorial: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/index.html
For python some students have used Code Academy: http://www.codecademy.com
Korf Lab UCD: Unix & Perl Primer for Biologists
A few videos about Illumina sequencing:
- Illumina Sequencing By Synthesis
- Another Illumina video Note: Nextera is the name of a kit that Illumina sells. We often use NEBNext Ultra DNA kits, which work a bit differently in the beginning of the prep.